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Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

By : Michael Kuhlmann
Book Image

Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

By: Michael Kuhlmann

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Social Media for WordPress
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Damage control—key aspects of maintenance


Managing your site can translate into different responsibilities, depending on whom you talk to. They can usually be grouped into three categories:

  • Hardware: your live server, development server, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), cloud services, caching settings, database optimization, and so on

  • Software:WordPress plugin and theme updates, content backups, any third-party services tied to your site(s)

  • Site Users: spam prevention, user feedback, site-related troubleshooting, and so on

When to use a dedicated server

Assuming that you're starting out with a low-traffic website (a few hundred unique visitors a month), you will most likely not run into any issues when it comes to running your site on a cheap server. However, once traffic starts to pick up, one of two things will happen:

  • Your website will time out with some sort of member exceeded bandwidth limit page or message that will leave your visitors utterly perplexed

  • Your visitors will complain...